Terraform: Create AWS EC2 Instance

This repo helps create EC2 Instance using Terraform

In main.tf change:

• region, in the provider block

  provider "aws" {
      region = "af-south-1"
  }
  

• in the resource block, give the instance a name in the tags, you may assign your name or email to the creator tag.

  resource "aws_instance" "tf-spin" {
      ...
      tags = {
          "Name" = "instance name"
          "creator" = "username"
          "purpose" = "Terraform-Playground"
      }
  }
  

how to run it

1. Open your terminal, clone this repo.
2. Navigate in to the repo dir cd path-to-repo/create-aws-instance-terraform.
3. Run terraform init to initialize the configuration.
4. Run terraform plan to preview what terraform is about to create or change.
5. Apply the configuration terraform apply. Type yes at the prompt as confirmation to create the instance/infrastructure.
6. Go to your aws console to see the instance created.

Voila!

You can terminate or remove instance by running terraform destroy